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title: _ A vast mountain occupying the centre of each of an infinite number… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: _ A vast mountain occupying the centre of each of an infinite number of worlds. Who acts: vast mountain. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 102

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\_ A vast mountain occupying the centre of each of an infinite number of worlds.

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**Who acts:** vast mountain · **What happens:** occupy · **To what, where:** centre

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vast mountain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:17:103
# text = _ A vast mountain occupying the centre of each of an infinite number of worlds.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	occupying	occupy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	worlds	world	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | gerund | a vast mountain | the centre of each of a infinite number of worlds |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus centre=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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